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Final Okay Due Soon

Accord Reached On Dorm Rule

By Stefan Lopatkiewicz
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Tentative agreement has been
reached between student leaders
from the Alderman Road
dormitories and the director and
assistant director of the Housing
Division on the plan for a new
system of student government for
the upper-class residence complex.

Final agreement on the plan,
which will enable broader
self-government for the residents of
the dormitory area, particularly in
social affairs, is expected to be
reached early next week, at which
time details will be revealed.

Included in the new
governmental structure will be an
autonomous Alderman Legislative
Council with expanded powers,
which would "work closely with
the Housing Division." This council
would differ from the present one
in that it would no longer be a
subordinate committee of the
Student Council. A separate
Judiciary Council would also be
established to deal with concerns of
the dormitory complex. In
addition, the dormitory counselor
program will be modified to
complement the new student
government. There would be one,
rather than the present three,
counselors per dormitory, and he
will be relieved of most of his
disciplinary responsibilities and will
concentrate more on personal
counseling, orientation and
administration.

The initial agreement on the
student government plan followed a
series of meetings between the
student group composed of Richard
Snyder, Chairman of the Alderman
Road Committee; Edward Hayes,
Chairman of Counselors; Hal
Collums, Vice-Chairman of
Counselors; Jim Kelly, Chairman of
the Men's Residential Council of
Alderman Road; Pete Rogati,
President of the Alderman Road
Social Organization; and Randy
Ross; and Mssrs. Titus and Main,
which began last November at the
suggestion of Mr. Titus.

The purpose of the new "series
of governments" was described by
the group of student leaders as
threefold:

1) for greater self-government by
the students, especially in
"concerns of their private lives"

2) for greater enforcement of
these rules by the students
themselves

3) for the achievement of a
system in which counselors can
concentrate on matters to make
themselves more effective
counselors.

Upper-class residents of the
Alderman Road dormitories must
also approve the proposals through
a referendum vote.